Principal Investigator(s):United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census

Summary:

This file was prepared to acquaint users with the Summary
Tape File 3A (STF 3A) record structure and to provide a test file for
software development. The file contains no statistical data. The
identification portion of each record contains geographic information
for the Missouri test sites used in the 1988 Dress Rehearsal Census.
The data cells contain "dummy" data consisting of the sequence number
of the data cell within the record. The final record layout for all STF
3A files is shown in the identification and table po... (more info)

This file was prepared to acquaint users with the Summary
Tape File 3A (STF 3A) record structure and to provide a test file for
software development. The file contains no statistical data. The
identification portion of each record contains geographic information
for the Missouri test sites used in the 1988 Dress Rehearsal Census.
The data cells contain "dummy" data consisting of the sequence number
of the data cell within the record. The final record layout for all STF
3A files is shown in the identification and table portions of the data
dictionary.

Study Description

Citation

U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. CENSUS OF POPULATION AND HOUSING, 1990 [UNITED STATES]: SUMMARY TAPE FILE 3A, RECORD SEQUENCE EXAMPLE FILE. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census [producer], 1991. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1992. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09592.v1

This file was developed as a test file and contains no
statistical data. The file is structured with four 7,925-character
records per case.

Methodology

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major
statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Standardized missing values.

Version(s)

Original ICPSR Release:1992-05-18

Version History:

2006-03-30 File CB9592.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.